Nancy of Yarmouth, Sheet Music 02

This item is part of the I. G. Greer Folksong Collection which consists of more than 300 individual song titles and their variants as collected by Isaac Garfield Greer (1881-1967) from informants, primarily in Ashe, Wilkes and Watauga counties. The collection includes manuscripts, typescript transcriptions produced by Dr. Greer’s clerical staff, and handwritten musical notations. Songs range from traditional Child Ballads, traditional English and Scottish ballads as well as their American variants, to 19th century popular music to musical compositions of local origin.

Ballads, English

Betrothal--Songs and music

Murder--Songs and music

Ghosts--Songs and music

Suicide--Songs and music

Abusive parents--Songs and music

Jemmy and Nancy, The Barbadoes Lady

AC.113 Isaac Garfield (I.G.) Greer Papers and Recordings

W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

Greer, I. G. (Isaac Garfield), 1881-1967

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Notated music

English

Jimmy and Nancy

Lovers, I pray lend an ear to my story,
and take example from this constant pair.
How love a young creature blast in her glory - Beautiful Nancy, if your mother will hear.

She was a merchant's lovely fair daughter,
heiress of fifteen hundred a year
A young man he courted her to be his jewel
Son of a gentleman who lived near.

Brown, Older Ballads - Mostly British - 61 Laws, M 38

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